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No. 568,169. Patented Sept. 22, 1896.

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UNITED STATES "ATENT OFFICE.

GUSTAF L. REENSTIERNA, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TOTHEOPI-IILUS KING, TRUSTEE, OF SAME PLACE.

COMB-CLEAN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 568,169, datedSeptember 22, 1896.

Application filed January 9, 1896. Serial No. 574,880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GUSTAF L. REENSTIERNA, of Boston, in the countyofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Comb-Cleaners, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to devices for cleaning hair-combs, and has inview the production of an article of this character which shall providefor the convenient and effective assemblage of the parts, the numberofwhich is reduced to the minimum.

The drawings which accompany and form part of this specificationillustrate an embodiment of the invention.

Figure 1 shows a perspective view of the device. Fig. 2 shows afragmentary perspective view on a greatly-enlarged scale. Fig. 3represents a View of a modification.

The device is made up of two end pieces or handles and flexible strandsextending between them, and is designed to be manipulated much as arazor-strop, one handle or end piece being coupled with anysuitably-fixed support, as a hook or nail, and the other end piece heldby the user with one hand, while with the other hand he runs the combback and forth with the strands between the teeth of the comb.

I have here shown one end piece as composed of a piece of stiff wirebent into a ring a, interlocked at a, and bent into a substantiallyrectangular loop a, with a hook a at one end receiving an arm a which isone long side of the rectangle. The other end piece is similarly formedof a piece of stiff wire bent into an eye I) and a substantiallyrectangular loop I), with a hook b at one end receiving an arm 19 whichconstitutes one side of the rectangle. The-cleaningstrands are made of asingle piece of cord 0, which is passed and repassed between the arms aand b of the end pieces and looped for engagement therewith, as shown inFig. 2, the cord being looped, as at c, and placed around the arm withtwo strands running through the end of the loop. The ends of the cordare tied around the end strands, as shown at 0 after having passedthrough the end loops.

It will be seen that this manner of looping the cord connects thestrands very securely with the end pieces.

The device will be seen to be extremely simple in construction and yetof a strong and durable character. An additional ad- 5 5 vantage of theconstruction described is that when the cleaning-strands become unfitfor further use they can be very readily removed and others substitutedby disengaging the arms a and b from the hooks a and 19*, there beingsufficient resiliency inherent in the wire of which the end pieces aremade to permit this.

Instead of the cord passed from the arm a I may use a Woven web, wherethe weftstrands are omitted for a distance, leaving the warp-threads totake the place of the cord 0,

the weft-threads being introduced at the ends to form tab-pieces f, thatare bent about the arms a b and secured by stitches or other 70.

fastening devices f.

Having thus explained the nature of v my invention and described a wayof constructing and using the same, though without attempting to setforth all of the forms in which it may be made or all of the modes ofits use, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

. A comb-cleaner comprising end pieces each composed of a wire bent intoan eye and a substantially rectangular loop with a hook. at one endreceiving one end of an arm of the loop to provide for separableengagement; and cleaning-strands having loops at their ends strung uponthe said arms of the rectan gular wire loops, substantiallyin the mannerand for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, this 6th day of January, A D.1896 GUSTAF L. REENSTIERNA.

Witnesses:

A. D. HARRISON,

A. D. ADAMS.

